Du Lingxuan was hailed as a top-tier practitioner of classical witchcraft, while Lin Zhaojun was likened to a top-tier practitioner of modern witchcraft. The very first match of the opening round had been arranged for these two witches to deliver.
The four contestants in the E2 group stage were Lilith, Lin Zhaojun, Du Lingxuan, and the foreign witch Bessie Adams. A group this evenly matched was already considered relatively straightforward.
The player distribution was also fairly reasonable: classical casters Lilith and Du Lingxuan, modern casters Lin Zhaojun and Bessie Adams—two old, two new.
Classical witches broadly referred to witches whose specialties and spells drew upon three or more schools. Simply put, their offense and defense were meticulous and methodical, nearly always backed by established tactical systems. They understood other witches to an extraordinary degree, excelled at countering tactics, and could bring out their combat strength across different terrains.
Modern witches, with Lin Zhaojun as an example, might be highly proficient in magic, but their spell lists in battle were simple and clear: [Dispel Magic], [Greater Dispel Magic], [Eradication], [Wither Mana], and so on. By mastering a particular spell, they continuously developed unique spell models around it for combat, rarely relying on other spells as their primary offense and instead using specialties to patch up their spells' shortcomings.
Lin Zhaojun's shortcoming was that she was not particularly good at large-scale micromanagement.
Compared to Agatha Landon, who currently stood at the pinnacle of classical witches, if both of them used transmutation magic to create knight forces of one hundred men each, Lin Zhaojun could at most make those knights elite among elites. Agatha, meanwhile, could directly create one hundred genuine knight lords who had trained in martial arts since childhood—each one could chop down twenty without a problem. (Of course, that was